Reply To: Infinity degrees of JoCo
Well, if we’re going to go with the famous ones, JoCo wrote a song about Mandelbrot (or if that’s not enough, he wrote songs with Paul and Storm, who met Mandelbrot once and got him to say hi to JoCo) whose Erd?s number is 3, giving JoCo an Erd?s number of 4 and an Erd?s-Bacon number of 6, although these aren’t real of course since we’re not limiting it to mathematical papers or films, but even if we go via Daniel Kleitman, who has the lowest Erd?s-Bacon number and can basically make anyone’s Erd?s number equal to two more than their Bacon number (if we don’t care about whether the links are strictly limited to papers for Erd?s and films for Bacon) JoCo’s fake Erd?s number is still 4.